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(Investigative Insights TV) Jan. 26, 2026: This video confronts the Epstein/Maxwell scandal not as an isolated crime story, but as a carefully managed containment exercise—one designed to keep congressional scrutiny narrow, sanitized, and politically survivable.
While lawmakers posture about child sex trafficking, the discussion exposes why deeper questions about arms dealing, financial [world bank] criminality, intelligence [CIA, Mossad, KGB, etc.] ties, and Epstein’s access to the highest levels of power are deliberately kept off-limits.
(Whitney Webb) What do Palantir and other Tech Bro corporations want?
What’s presented as transparency is instead a "limited hangout," restricting public attention to a safe spectrum of outrage while shielding networks that implicate multinational corporations, intelligence agencies, and political dynasties across decades.
The analysis traces these power structures back to their historical roots, arguing that Epstein is best understood as a product of a post–World War II alliance between organized crime, Wall Street interests, and Western intelligence services.
From CIA-backed regime change in Latin America to covert banking networks that survive scandal after scandal, the video outlines how “national security” has long functioned as a catchall justification for protecting elite economic interests rather than democratic accountability.
By following the money, the intelligence ties, and the recurring cast of protected character actors, the discussion makes a stark claim: The real story of Epstein threatens to expose a transnational cartel operating above the law, which is precisely why the truth is rationed so carefully.
Turn on notifications to stay updated. 🔔 Investigative Insights TV (IITV) transforms original content from interviews, lectures, podcasts, and keynotes featuring Whitney Webb to provide viewers with a more immersive and engaging experience. The goal is to educate and inform as many people as possible about Whitney Webb’s unique economic insights and critiques of global capitalism. IITV also strives to make Webb’s ideas more accessible to individuals with hearing impairments by providing professional transcriptions for the majority of videos. By enhancing the original content with cinematic editing, improved clarity, and added context, IITV aims to amplify Webb’s message and help more viewers understand the economic and social issues they address.
(Sammy Obeid) Premiered Jan. 27, 2026: She (this dim heckler) really put herself in front of this one #ICE #hecklers #standupcomedy.
Trump may be demented but he's also possessed
Is this satire? No, DJ Trump really fabricated a "Board of Peace" out of thin air, and he made himself the head of it. It's befitting of his newly ill-gotten Nobel Peace Prize with MC Machado's name on it so she could be installed as the new head of Venezuela instead of Trump himself, now president of two countries...and head of BOP, Sultanate of Yemen, Sheikh of Somalia, Sex Master of his children's household and, of course, King of Epstein Island (Little Saint James, U.S. Virgin Islands).
Uncover the historical truth about Buddhist warrior monks with this informative and enlightening book.
Exploring the origins of Buddhism and the ethos of the Japanese samurai, martial arts practitioner Professor Jeffrey Mann traces the close connection between the Buddhist way of compassion (karuna) and the way of the warrior.
This Zen book serves as a basic introduction to the history, philosophy, and current practice of Zen as it relates to the Japanese martial arts.
It examines the elements of Zen that have found a place in budo(bujutsu or bugei)—the "Martial Way"—such as zazen, mushin, zanshin, and fudoshin, then goes on to discuss the ethics and practice of budo as a modern sport.
Offering insights into how qualities integral to the true martial artist are interwoven with this ancient religious philosophy, this book on Buddhism helps practitioners reconnect to an authentic spiritual discipline of martial arts.
Muay Thai versus Shaolin Kung Fu
Film, television, and popular fiction have long exploited the image of the serene Buddhist monk who is master of the deadly craft of hand-to-hand combat.
While these media overly romanticize the relationship between a philosophy of non-violence and the art of fighting, When Buddhists Attack: The Curious Relationship Between Zen and the Martial Arts shows this link to be nevertheless real, even natural.
ABOUT: The author Jeffrey K. Mann is a professor and the chair of the Religious Studies Department at [the Protestant Evangelical Lutheran] Susquehanna University (susqu.edu) in Pennsylvania. He earned his doctorate in religious studies from Vanderbilt University and has also served as a visiting professor of religion at Senshu University in Ikuta, Japan. A longtime student of Japanese martial arts, he has trained and competed in karate tournaments throughout North America, Japan, Okinawa, and the Philippines. He is an instructor of the Susquehanna Goju-ryu Karate-do Club, a school affiliated with the International Okinawan Goju-ryu Karate-do Federation.
(SEEKER TO SEEKER) Buddhist non-duality [there being no distinction between seen and seer in the Mind Only School] sees all of reality as the activity of consciousness.
Divisions such as subject and object, mind and matter, self and world, [nirvana and samsara], are artificially created by consciousness in the process of simulating an external reality.
This video explores the philosophy of the Yogācāra School of Buddhism, a tradition that specializes in the study of mind—and how insight into the mind's workings can transform our way of being.
📝 SCRIPT: Read the script of this video essay on the author's personal Substack page: [soon...]. Video editing by Sempiter & Simeon
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SEEKER TO SEEKER, Jan. 23, 2026; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵, circa 1583–1645) was a Japanese Samurai swordsman, strategist, artist (who drew Hotei Watching a Cockfight shown above), and writer who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in 62 duels [3][a].
Musashi is considered a kensei ("sword saint") of Japan [4]. He was the founder of the Niten Ichi-ryū (Nito Ichi-ryū) style of swordsmanship, and in his final years authored The Book of Five Rings (五輪の書, Go Rin No Sho) and Dokkōdō (獨行道, The Path of Aloneness). More
This method comes from Japanese philosophy about life and works by reshaping the power of the subconscious mind, where resistance, excuses, and hesitation are born.
Learn:
How to stop negotiating with the mind
Why most people fail at self-control despite motivation
The real strength and weakness of discipline in mental training
Simple Japanese meditation techniques that build inner authority
How this approach reflects the eight Japanese habits that can change life
A practical way to understand how to maintain discipline in life consistently.
This is not about forcing the mind. It is about training it so that obedience becomes natural.
Some scholars like D.T. Suzuki see the term wu-nien (無念, "without thought," "without recollection," with nien possibly rendered as smṛti, "mindfulness," "memory") as being synonymous to wu-xin[2, 12].
Furthermore, while wunien is common in the texts of the Southern Schoolof Zen, the texts of the Northern School prefer the term "freedom from thought" or "freedom from conceptualization" (離念) [13].
NO-MIND: The term 無心 contains the Chinese character for negation, "not" or "without" (無), along with the character for heart-mind (心).
Likewise, in Sanskrit, the term is a compound of the prefix a- (negation) and the word citta (mind, thought, consciousness, heart).
In China, the term came to mean a state in which there is no mental activity, or a mind free of all discrimination and conceptualization, making it similar to the Buddhist Sanskrit term nisprapañca[9] and the Sanskrit term nirvikalpa [10].
Another similar Sanskrit term is amanasikāra ("non-thinking," "mental non-engagement"), which is found in the works of the 11th century tantric Yogi Maitripa [11].
Some scholars also offer other Sanskrit terms as being the source of the Chinese term wunien, including: a-cintya, a-vikalpa, or a-saṃjñā[2]. More
“Those who think they're free just haven't come to the end of their leash.” - Michael Parenti
American Marxist scholar, political analyst, historian, and author Michael Parenti has died at the age of 92. He was an outspoken critic of American capitalism, imperialism, and class inequities, whose intellectual works were celebrated around the world. He was the author of over 20 books, including Democracy for the Few and Superpatriotism.
“Well, I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists. It was Marx — dare we mention him? I hear he’s coming back in style. It was Marx who said one capitalist will kill many other capitalists, that the system begins to consume itself. We see that with Bernard Madoff [Bernie who made off with a lot of other people's money] and the like.…The free market does not work. It’s not free. It’s not really a market; it’s a plunder. And it has to be done away with.” - Michael Parenti
Michael John Parenti (Sept. 30, 1933–Jan. 24, 2026) was an American political scientist, academic historian, and cultural critic who wrote on scholarly and popular subjects. He taught at American universities and also ran for political office [1]. Parenti was well known for his Marxist writings and lectures [2, 3] and was a heroic intellectual of the American Left [4]. More
Peaceful and legal protests and demonstrations have intensified in Minnesota after federal immigration agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse [like they executed Nicole Good, a 37-year-old mother] who worked in the Minneapolis Veterans Health Care System, on Saturday.
ICE: Shoot 'n keep shootin
Democracy Now!'s John Hamilton reports from the scene where innocent Pretti was shot to death, where protesters are clashing with federal agents.
“We’ve seen everything from [teargassed] people that are unconscious, that have fainted, tear-gassed, bruised, bloody noses, can’t breathe,” said Melissa, a local resident.
State Senator Omar Fateh responded to the killing with outrage: “He had a camera on his hand. He was tackled, he was pummeled, and he was executed.” VIDEO:
Democracy Now! speaks with a former colleague of Alex Pretti, the 37-year-old ICU nurse ICE shot to death, acting as Trump's federal agents in Minneapolis on Saturday. Dr. Aasma Shaukat, who hired Pretti for a research job over a decade ago, says he lived with “kindness, compassion, and a strong sense of civic duty to help his fellow citizens.” VIDEO:
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